He’s mad Arteta has a better job than him, such a narcissist:
And Tottenham manager Mourinho could not help wondering how people such as Carlo Ancelotti, a Premier League winner at Chelsea like himself, were being overlooked for top posts, with Everton, at the wrong end of the table, finalising the details of the Italian’s appointment.
“The only point I can find, and it is for us to laugh a little bit, is that years ago the best managers were the guys with more victories and now the best is the guy with the fewest defeats,” he said.
“So, Ancelotti has three Champions Leagues, won the league in Italy, France and England and won cups here and there – but Ancelotti has lost, I don’t know, 200 matches?
“I have lost 150-180 – Carlo is a little bit older than me. I think now it is not about how much you won, it is about the matches we didn’t lose. So, probably the best managers now are the managers with zero defeats.
“The only reason I can understand is that they look through the CVs and see guys with more defeats and guys with less defeats, so guys with less defeats are given the job. I cannot find another reason.”
I hope Ar-teta and Ar-senal once again have success! He as a manager may be unknown like Wenger when he arrived but I think he is capable and I hope he can replicate the impact of the early Wenger days. I’m behind him and the team!
Juego de posición 101. Might as well have been Guardiola talking here.
If I’m totally honest, actually, I’m more excited by the prospect of Arteta.
I think it’s one of those things where if I was completely cold and calculating and I was a betting man without vested interest in the club I’d weigh the pros and cons and prefer Poch.
But I’m not a betting man and not completely cold and calculating. I’m an optimist and I’m a sucker for the ultimate payoff situation: our own top manager, with ties to the club, some 15 years younger than Poch and with newer ideas, a longer cycle before his ideas become old, our own Basque God without some of the minor warts/limitations Poch has.
Basically it’s medium risk (say medium risk because where we are at a point where we can’t really drop any further; the risks are wasting more time/getting further away from building something, losing more of Wenger’s positives established at the club) extremely high reward versus low risk high reward. A betting man takes the latter bet an optimist with his heart in it takes the first one.
Good luck to Arteta, this job is going to be tough even to get us back into a top 6 side no matter a top 4 one. A lot of the youngsters have a lot of try in them but besides Martinelli, I don’t think any of them will probably reach the heights at Arsenal. Auba looks like he’s already out of Arsenal. Arteta needs to get those senior players onside even if it’s just for this season and then ship most of them off come the summer. I wish him all the best but I do worry for him.
Yeah man, I am really giddy about such romantic coincidences.
I mean I became an Arsenal largely because Arsenal & Arsene Wenger was a nice coincidence.
